 |
Great
White Shark Pictures |
 |
|
Great white
sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, are
found in coastal surface waters throughout the world,
with greater concentrations off the southern coasts
of Australia, off South Africa, California, and Mexico's
Isla Guadalupe. They are streamlined swimmers with
powerful tails that can propel them through the water
at speeds of up to 15 miles per hour. Great whites
can leave the water completely, breaching, when attacking
prey from underneath. Their mouths are lined with
up to 3,000 serrated, triangular teeth arranged in
several rows, and they have an exceptional sense
of smell to detect prey. Populations have clearly
declined to a point at which the great white shark
is now considered endangered, due to overfishing
and accidental catching in gill nets. Great white
sharks are carnivorous,
and primarily eat fish, including rays, tuna, and
smaller sharks, dolphins, porpoises, whale carcasses,
seals, fur seals and sea lions, and sometimes sea
turtles. The great
white shark is the largest
predatory fish on Earth, reaching lengths of more
than 20 feet and weighing up 5,000 lb. Great white
sharks have slate-gray upper bodies to blend in with
the rocky coastal sea floor, but get their name from
their white underbellies.
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
Picture of great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, as it breaches
out of water, seizing imitation seal towed as a lure,
False Bay, South Africa
Picture #: 006563 |
Image of a great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, detail of
ampullae of lorenzini sensors, South Australia
Picture #: 075543 |
Photo of cage
diving for great white shark, Carcharodon
carcharias,
in Guadalupe Island, Mexico, Eastern
Pacific. Guadalupe attracts sharks
from June through December. The seasonal
shark concentration attracks many photographers and
enthusiasts.
Picture #: 042026 |
Stock photo of great
white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, as
it breaches to attack South African Cape fur
seal, Arctocephalus pusillus
pusillus, South Africa
Picture #: 002645 |
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
Stock photo of diver
in South African style shark cage and great white
shark, Carcharodon
carcharias, South
Africa
Picture #: 009363 |
Photo of a great
white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, Seal
Island, False bay, South Africa, natural breach on
Cape fur seal, Indian Ocean
Picture #: 058215 |
Image of great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, Spencer Gulf, South
Australia
Picture #: 002908 |
Picture of seal decoy,
used for getting great white shark, Carcharodon
carcharias, to breach, South
Africa, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 087029 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
Photo of great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, breach on
seal decoy,Seal Island, False Bay, South Africa
Picture #: 058128 |
Image of a great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, Guadalupe
Island, Mexico, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 079164 |
Photo of shark cage
diving for great white sharks, Carcharodon
carcharias, in Guadalupe
Island, Mexico.
Picture #: 042015 |
Illustration in pen
and ink of pyramid of biomass with great white shark,
Carcharodon carcharias, northern bluefin tuna, Thunnus
thynnus, Atlantic mackerel, Scomber
scombrus, European
anchovy, Engraulis encrasicolus, zooplankton,
phytoplankton
Picture #: 067205 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
Stock photo of a great
white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, taking
bait, Guadalupe Island, Mexico, Pacific
Picture #: 016753 |
Photo of great
white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, as
it attacks Cape fur seal, Arctocephalus
pusillus pusillus, South Africa
Picture #: 002646 |
Image of a great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, Seal Island,
False Bay, South Africa, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 058129 |
Picture of a great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, as it breaches
out of the water to seize bait, South Africa
Picture #: 011002 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
Stock photo of a great
white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, South Africa
Picture #: 000309 |
Photo of great
white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, South Africa
Picture #: 087020 |
Image of a great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, Isle da Gaudalupe, Mexico, Pacific
Picture #: 092747 |
Picture of a great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, dorsal fin, South Africa
Picture #: 000337 |
|
|
|
|
|
